Mirko Lenz
Consultant And Software Engineer at Self-employed
Bullay, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMirko Lenz is a researcher and hands-on engineer with eight years of experience building AI-driven systems, specializing in large language models, Case-Based Reasoning, and intelligent web services. He combines academic rigor from his PhD work at Universität Trier and research roles at DFKI with practical consulting and self-employed engineering—taking projects from assessment through reproducible deployment using the Nix ecosystem. His contributions span NLP research and pragmatic back-end engineering, evidenced by open-source work like a Home Assistant waste-collection integration where he implemented robust data fetching, parsing, and refactors in Python. Comfortable across AI, DevOps, and web development, he emphasizes security, performance, and maintainability in production-facing systems. Based in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Mirko bridges industry and research through collaborations such as the Eifelkreis Digital project, bringing research insights directly into applied solutions. He often pairs novel LLM approaches with classical CBR techniques, revealing creative hybrid strategies that improve explainability and reuse.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Business Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy, Business Informatics at Universität TrierHigh School, High School at Gymnasium Traben-Trarbach
English, Latin, German, French
Github Skills (8)
icss10
data-parsing10
python10
http-request10
home-assistant-integration9
apidoc9
fallback9
api9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mampfes/hacs_waste_collection_schedule
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Home Assistant integration framework for (garbage collection) schedules
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 21 commits, 6 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mirko primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the waste collection schedule integration. Their work focused on adding support for new waste collection services in different regions, including Cochem-Zell, ART Trier, and c-trace Bürgerportal. The user implemented data fetching and parsing logic for each new service, using Python and libraries like `requests` and `ICS`. They also refactored and improved existing code, adding type hints and optimizing imports.
schedulesmuellgarbagehome-assistantjumomind
mirkolenz/texmf
Apr 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:175 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
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